These are the proceedings of the symposium on “Frontiers in Nuclear Physics” held at the Physikzentrum Bad Honnef from June 18 to 20, 2009. The workshop concentrated on recent advances in the understanding of the nuclear forces, fewnucleon systems and related topics. Included are a short contribution per talk. ∗ This symposium was supported in parts by funds provided from the Helmholtz Associat...

The organizers of this meeting have asked me to present perspectives of nuclear physics. This means to identify the areas where nuclear physics will be expanding in the next future. In six chapters a short overview of these areas will be given, where I expect that nuclear physics will develop quite fast: (1) Quantum Chromodynamics and effective field theories in the confinement region. (2) Nucl...

σ L /σ T in the ρ 0-meson diffractive electroproproduction. Abstract The background due to the direct diffractive dissociation of the photon into the π + π −-pair to the " elastic " diffractive ρ 0-meson production in electron-proton collisions is calculated. At large Q 2 the interference between resonant and non-resonant π + π − production changes the σ L /σ T ratio with the mass of the 2π (i....

We quote arguments from discussions about relativistic nuclear physics for a claim that the light-front Hamiltonian approach and the similarity renormalization scheme may provide a missing element in a theory of baryons and mesons. The key point is that the meson-baryon vertex form factors can be correlated with the number and type of interaction terms in the Hamiltonian, in agreement with quan...

Today the applications of nuclear physics span a very broad range of topics and fields. This review discusses a number of aspects of these applications, including selected topics and concepts in nuclear reactor physics, nuclear fusion, nuclear non-proliferation, nuclear-geophysics, and nuclear medicine. The review begins with a historic summary of the early years in applied nuclear physics, wit...